captioning made possible by johnson & johnson, where quality products for the american family have been a tradition for generations >> lapook: good morning, jane paul low is off. i'm dr. jon lapook this is a special edition of "sunday morning." special and unusual as well. that's because i'm here in my role as a doctor as well as broadcast journalist. together this morning we'll be looking at cancer as its impact on patients and families and most importantly at research that offers hope for some day reaching a world beyond conserve. teaching the the body is fight off cancer among the other issues, dramatic steps some

women are now taking. it's a matter of choice. >> i didn't choose to go flat, it chose me. >> meet women who are breaking the silence and the rules when the comes to dealing with breast cancer. instead of reconstructive surgery they are embracing their scars. >> i love my body. it's good enough. >> 'said, what it means to go flat. >> lapook: a string of cancer case near a polluted area, is that cause and effect or just a random occurrence. turns out cancer clusters are hard to prove as anna worner. >> is there something in the water in this small new hampshire town. >> would you even walk in that stream right now.

>> with my boots on. >> searching for the cause and separating the fact from the fear. ahead on "sunday morning." >> lapook: cheryl crow is a singer is a cancer message. >> today sheryl crow is about to release a new role. in 2006. they are selling you you have breast cancer. >> where all of a sudden everything is swirling. >> ahead, the value of early techs. >> lapook: what can we do to hold cancer at bay. martha teichner has food for thought. >> how many times have you had

cancers? >> five times. >> along the way, he became a believer. >> relationship with food to health and wellness. >> your relationship to what you put in your grocery cart. >> broccoli, carrot. >> can you eat your way to a cancer free life? later on "sunday morning." >> lapook: all kind of promising cancer treatments. >> what do death stalker scorpions and great danes have in common? they're both helping cancer doctors find new ways of treatment. >> this will be the biggest improvement in cancer surgery maybe in 50 years. >> that's saying a lot. >> new cancer treatments may be

just on the horizon this "sunday morning." >> lapook: those stories and more are just ahead. first we go to kristine johnson for the sunday morning headlines. >> it's march 12, 2017. the house intelligence committee has given the white house until tomorrow to offer evidence that former president obama wiretapped president trump's phones during the campaign. he made the charge in series of tweets. so far he's offered no proof. a california man is due in washington, d.c. court monday. the 26-year-old scaled a fence late friday night. president trump who was home called the intruder a, quote, troubled person. vice president mike pence is on the road. speaking in louisville,

mr. pence defended some of the machine's host controversial proposals among they will health savings accounts and tax contracts credits. finally in case you haven't heard, we turn clocks forebarred one hour overnight. the start of daylight saving time, yes, it is saving, there is no s. we checked. now to the weather. spring may be around the corner but it's colder than normal across the nation. chicago could see its first inch of snow since december. a powerful nor'easter may bring snow from the mid atlantic to the northeast as winter strikes back. >> lapook: to begin -- >> it looked like the legs of a

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scientist siddhartha mukherjee calls cancer the em pore other of all maladies unhis prize winning history of the disease. around 400 bchippocrates is says to have first gun it a name. karkinos. what was it chosen? >> the word comes from crab, and there were something about tumors as they sent their fingers or fingerlings into the body. they look like the legs of a crab sort of dug underneath the sand. >> but the earliest preference can can found thousand years earlier. as for treatment, it says, there is none. in fact, it's not until the arrival of anesthesia in the mid 1th century that surgery became a viable option. >> who who have thought you

could open up a human being. and sew that human being up again. it was amazing. >> pauley: how many labs are there around the world doing cancer research? >> i would say hundred. >> pauley: he conducts research and treats patients at new york's columbia university medical center says by the beginning of the 0th century x-ray technology would give rise to the very earliest form of radiation treatment. the use of toxic chemicals to kill cancer cells was called common therapy was a 1940 os. >> the dream was to invent a chemical that would kill the cancer cell but spare the normal cell. the problem is that cancers evolve out of normal cells. they are very close cousins. >> this woman has cancer. >> pauley: still given that

potential therapies were as often as fearsome, even shame. >> when my mother was surviving cancer it was literally unspeakable. >> yeah. >> pauley: what changed that? >> you couldn't shove it under the carpet any more. we saw our children dying from it. we saw our parents dying from it. it had to be a public word because otherwise we couldn't have a conversation. how can there be a war on something you can't nail what drinks us to 171, when president richard nixon did in fact declare war on cancer. >> i sent a message to the congress the first of this year which provide for a national commitment for the conquest of cancer. >> the war on cancer grew out of a particular optimism around cancer. remember that human beings had just walked on the moon.

it was very doable. >> pauley: that was premature. key was the realization that a patient's genes could in effect be calling the shots. >> what tells us a cell to stop growing or start growing in the first place? the idea that sitting at the center of the puzzle was genes. you had a framework to understand cancer jane once researchers began to understand cancer's mechanisms. more clues started to fall into place a. human genome project completed in 200 led to development of still more treatment among them, individually targeted immunotherapy techniques. and where are we in the timeline or the arc? >> the problem remains how do you target, how do you kill the cancer cell while sparing normal cells, that was a puzzle in 19

1920. the puzzle in 1970. >> pauley: but there are more tools now? >> many more tools. >> the immunotherapies are in earliest stages. the effort to unlock the secret within the human immune system is already offering new hope for patients for whom traditional treatments have fallen short. what happened to her seems like a miracle. you're feeling how? >> feeling great. he feel like i can could do anything. >> back when she was just 9 she's was taken a hospital on long island where doctors gave her a diagnose she barely understood, leukemia? >> am i going to die? am i going to be able to do the stuff i did before? >> 98% of this form of cancer

respond well to chemotherapy. but after four brutal rounds, her cancer was getting worse. >> it was very scary. >> a natural reaction to to think, why me? >> i was like, what did i do bad so that god could give me this punishment. >> desperate and out of options shed that one last chance. she was enrolled in a clinical trial at memorial sloan kettering cancer. how is everybody? >> good. >> lapook: after six weeks, the pediatric oncologist couldn't find a single leukemia cell. not one. what did you think? >> i thought this worked. >> lapook: in a patient who basically ten years ago would have been told there's nothing we can do? >> yes. just a little puff foo from steroid because of a promising

new frontier in the war on cancer. i am if you mu know therapy. to find and kill cancer cells. one of the biggest challenges in fighting cancer has been that cancer cells find ways of becoming invisible to the body's defense and the immune system can't kill what it can't see. doctors taught her immune system to see. they took billions of her white blood cells, cells that are normally are good at destroying invaders like bacteria, turn them into cancer killers. >> we can modify them, teach them how to fight cancer and in fuse them back into the patient. >> like blood hods. >> exactly. >> go. >> lapook: traditional therapies like chemo and radiation often damage healthy tissue along with cancer cells. and better at sparing normal

issue but there have been serious side effects even death. >> once we knew it could work, we've been working around the clock. >> lapook: at the national cancer institute. in 1984 he was the first doctor to cure a dying patient using her own immune system. >> these are immune cells. >> lapook: but also be the first to tell you that all these years later immunotherapy is tell in its infancy. >> we've gotten to the point now where i think we understand why the patients who are successfully treated experience tumor regression. based on that knowledge, i think we're going to see dramatic progress in the next few years to come. >> lapook: but most patients don't have years to wait. >> lungs are somewhat compromised. >> yeah. >> like the 29-year-old who has

a sarcoma. >> normal lung would be black. these are all abnormal tumors. he has many hundred of different tumors. >> lapook: he has already been through two round of chemotherapy. >> he came to us as do all of our patients, having exhausted what modern medicine can offer. and our goal is not to practice today's medicine but to create the medicine of tomorrow. >> lapook: and that would be immunotherapy. just as was done with ezzy, his white blood cells were taught to recognize. a month plater he gets back his juiced up cells, 0 million of them put into battle. >> definitely feeling very hopeful.

>> lapook: now he's waiting to see if those cells did their job. the highly personalized treatment is still only available in clinical trials. but there's another type of immunotherapy that's available now in hospitals across the country. fad approved drugs called check point inhibitors are being used to fight certain types of cancers. with especially positive results for melanoma. while effective treatment for widespread cancer remains illusive, they are at least on the right path. right now in the spectrum of cancer treatment, what percentage can be addressed by immunotherapy? >> if you look at all cancer patients, perhaps 10% can be helped by immunotherapy today. but it's getting better every day.

>> lapook: last tuesday he returned to the national cancer institute for a first check up. >> i just have that comfort in terms of i've done everything i can. >> good to see you. >> just hoping that we get results that we're seeking in this. we've gone over the x-rays very carefully. we compared them to the x-rays that you had before we started the treatment. and there was, as you know, rapid growth of the tumor. but that's been completely arrested now. the current x-rays are absolutely stable. no evidence of any growth. so that's good news. we want to see these tumors go away. sometimes that takes time. >> cancer patients deserve optimistic doctors. >> lapook: for now, patients like ezzy remain the exception. but doctors are hopeful and continue to explore the boundaries of this new frontier.

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>> lapook: susan spencer will be sampling some of them through the course of the morning. >> behold if you dare the death stalker scorpion. the venom can kill. not much here to love unless your dr. jim olson. this sound terrifying. >> it's beautiful. >> because the death stalker's venom may revolutionize how cancer surgery is done. dr. olson is a brain cancer physician and researcher at fred hutchinson cancer center in seattle, washington. >> we were inspired by a 16-year-old girl who had a brain tumor after 12 hours of surgery, surgeons left behind a big pie

piece. we decided to find a way to make the cancer light up so the surgeons could see it. >> the key is a scorpion venom synthetically reproduced. it sticks to cancer cells but not to normal cells. combine that sticky molecule with florescent dye you have tumor paint. what problem does it solve? >> sometimes it's hard for surgeon to tell what is cancer what is normal. in the brain you can't take out a big chunk of normal. tumor paint distinguishes the difference between brain cancer and normal brain in all of our experiments that we've done so far. >> check out this image of a tumor. >> did they get enough margin. >> i couldn't even tell -- but inject tumor paint. the tumor lights up.

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learn more about better breathing at mybreo.com. >> lapook: what does it mean when a rare cancer strikes several people in the same area. cancer clusters. >> what do you think that the contamination is moving? >> we know it's moving. >> dr. thomas sherman is on the hunt for a killer. >> where is where the landfill is. >> he's heading a task force investigating why several children in the region of new hampshire developed rare cancer. the cancer that took the life of paul thomas' 14-year-old son, sam. >> it's something missing in your life. it will always be there? >> and paul and his life sin say, questions persist.

>> in your head you're like, why are there three case that you can go off the top of your head, in the seacoast area? >> new hampshire says it's a cancer cluster. which the centers for disease control defines as greater than expected number of cancer case that occurs within a group of people in a geographic area over a period of time. and while that definition may be black and white, it turns out that almost everything else is anything but. state health departments get an average of a thousand reports of alleged clusters every year, but historically only a handful are ultimately recognized as true residential cancer clusters. one of those is the 1980s case of woburn, ms. mass, a story told by the book and movie "a civil action." more than 20 case of leukemia in children were linked to chemical

contamination of the water supply. how hard is it to figure out if something really is a cancer cluster? >> i've asked that before, extraordinarily difficult. >> toms river, new jersey, is another. >> a section of niagara falls. >> the infamous love canal case in upstate new york. investigators have to consider several factors including how often cancer occurred. how long it took to develop. whether genetics might play a role. one that are thing, things.

>> can't be a coincidence. i think people have a hard time understanding that some time. there are random patterns and things can happen because of chance. >> when it comes to the seacoast san tore lust sneer. >> they have incredible challenge. >> this is the main entrance. >> so far dr. sherman and others are focusing their questions on this old closed landfill where they say the military and others dumped toxic waste. new hampshire officials say they have found chemicals used to make commercial products. but they say there's no proof they are linked to the suspected seacoast cancer cluster. >> every time we find something it generates a bunch more questions. >> those responsible for the landfill deny there's any connection. but the thomases still hope for

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>> lapook: for women who have has mastectomies, what to do next is increasingly a matter of choice. erin moriarty takes what we caution is a candid look. >> my name is debby bowers. i was diagnosed with breast cancer. >> cancer is not just a killer. >> i was diagnosed in 2009 with breast cancer you've had a double mass tech comow. >> each of these women ranging

in age from 34 to 51. >> it's a loss. you learn to deal with it. >> it's how these women chose to deal with their loss that is sparking conversation. fair warning, some of these images are graphic. >> they call it going flat. instead of replacing their curves with surgical implants these women are embracing their scars, even bearing them publicly. >> i never saw anybody like me. i never heard about anybody like me. where are you people? i don't get it. i've never met a flat person before. where are you? >> that was how melanie felt six years ago when she chose not to have reconstructive surgery or wary moveable breast forms forms. >> for me, i just don't want to present two bodies. i don't want to walk out of my home with a breasted body and

then turn to my home and remove my breast then have a flat body. i didn't choose to go flat. it chose me. >> marion says that within she was diagnosed with breast cancer. >> i wanted what i had. >> she went from breast surgeon to plastic surgeon the same day. >> they did a beautiful job. i was very happy with them. >> but she one of the estimated 20% according to doctors who suffer side effects had infections. >> it was just, let's get them out. it's a myth. they're going to pop 'em in, going to be fine. it's a myth. >> another myth they say is that reconstructed breasts will feel just like the real thing. >> they will feel like regular breast to somebody else who is touching them. >> to a man. >> or whatever. >> they don't feel like real breasts. there's no sensation.

>> on the other hand, samantha says after going in the she gained sensation. >> in terms of sexuality, scars are very tender things, there is feeling in my chest. it's still an erogenous zone. which doesn't happen with implants. it's this foreign thing. >> when you just have a scar there, when you take a shower, when you look in the mirror isn't that a continual reminder that you had cancer? >> well, of course it is. it's the map of who we are. i don't want to forget what i've done and what i've been through. >> still, more than half of female breast cancer patients, nearly 60% who are offered breast reconstruction take it. >> i think that for us as surgeons we feel that if we're going to take ad with apart off we should replace it with something that looks just as

good. >> dr. debra axelrod is a surgeon at new york university's cancer center. she says reconstructive surgeries have greatly improved. yet she agrees that looking good can have some unexpected drawbacks. >> you know, if you're a stomach sleeper it's like sleeping on a frisbee. >> i do. >> it's the image of our bodies. we want to be whole. >> beauty is something in the mind, in the heart. >> these women hope to change that perception. >> we're just as much women as we were beforehand. >> there's a growing awareness and acceptance of going flat, they say, this ad campaign for a

national gym, a recent fashion show and the websites that offer stories, selfies and a sisterhood. >> what it's done for all of us, we can't even express. >> you're emotionaly? >> i it was about the friendships that we've made. incredible friendships. >> friendships that have helped each woman accept what they have lost and also what they have gained. >> i love my body. i love my body more than i ever have before. i see the strength. i see the strength of my conviction. i am not doing that to my body. my body is good enough. >> how did you march about this? >> lapook: ahead, truly man's

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>> want to take a walk? >> meet zoe. she's eight years old, full of heart and these days does pretty well on only three legs. this has not slowed you down. doctors had to amputate one of zoe's front legs also fall when she was diagnosed with life threatening bone cancer. >> dogs get cancer. the most common reason for a dog

to die. >> today zoe and fellow great dane murphy are part of a new study which may help people as much as their dogs. it's the pet project of veterinarian sheryl london a researcher at tufts medical center and dr. catherine janeway at dana farber boston children's cancer center. >> we're trying to understand cancers in dogs. then apply those to humans. >> the mu traiks cluster. >> this growing field is called comparative consoling. to find a cure. >> it puts the whole idea of dog being man's best friend in a completely new light. >> nobody would think of them at volunteers in a clinical trial. >> may save theirs. >> right. >> oncologist janeway treats the same type of bone cancer in children that london treats in dogs.

osteocar so ma. >> three or four decades since we've had a new approach that's worked. >> how is this any better than using the traditional model of the mouse in the lab? >> mice don't have an immune history like you and i do. they are kept in cages. dogs bet exposed to many different antigens. >> exposed to a lot more. >> on the left is a picture of a human leg bone. >> os cocar so ma in kids and dogs. is similar. >> the ultimate goal here. >> very promising new drugs. >> might come in zoe's lifetime. it will still have her paw prints all over it. >> just want to help, right? just trying to help.

>> lapook: come up. >> what did it taste like when you take your medicines? >> yukkyy. >> lapook: fighting cancer one child at a time.

♪ it isn't just about vision, it's about care. nobody cares for eyes more than pearle. >> lapook: small wonders. children saved from once fatal cancers thanks to ongoing research their ranks are growing by the day. tracy smith as a progress report. >> i need to you sit. >> when we first met rdie she seemed like typical healthy 4-year-old. >> what's that? >> a stethoscope. >> you'd never know she'd just been to hell and back. >> there you go. at six months old she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma,

cancer of the nerve tissue with tumors unher spine and belly growing out of control. chemo and surgery weren't working. doctors threw a hail marry pass gave her an experiment mall drug that turned off the specific gene. she says it taked awful but in less than a month her cancer was totally gone. >> she'll be coming round the mountain when she comes ♪ >> today at home in south carolina, edie's almost eight and still cancer free. parents nick and emily are of course over the moon. how much medicine is she on? >> she's not on anything right now. >> nothing. . >> the good news is that a little girl survived pediatric cancer. >> daddy! >> better news is that it's happening more often. are we beating childhood cancer? >> we're making advances in

certain childhood cancers that we hadn't envisioned five years ago. >> dr. peter add womanson at the children's hospital of philadelphia head up the nationwide children's oncology group. >> let's start with the most common childhood cancer. the 1960s a child with all had less than 10% chance of being cured. the same child born today has close to a 0% chance of being cured. so that's dramatic progress in a relatively short span of history. >> if there's a downside to saving children's lives it's that most young cancer survivors are in for problems down the road. so a kid survives but still has consequence for the rest of his or her life? >> that's right. we have children who as teenagers require hip replacements because of our treatment. then there are number of children who by the time they're in their 50s, early 30s experience heart failure.

>> since more adults get cancer than kids there's less government research money for childhood cancer cures, far less. >> the estimate from the national cancer institute is about% of their budget goes to studying childhood cancer. >> why is that so small? >> there some are who believe this we solved the childhood cancer problem. we haven't. we're curing children today that ten years ago we knew we couldn't cure. that only comes through research. >> thank you. >> so a large chunk of pediatric research money comes from private charities. one of the bigs was started by a young cancer patients, alex scott. who raised research money by selling lemonade. she died in 2004. this reporter included raised more than a hundred million dollars to bankroll new treatments like the one that saved edie's life. >> booyah!

>> the people at northwestern mute call life insurance, who were already big contribute turnovers childhood cancer research, were apparently moved by her story. >> look at this. >> they even built a float in her honor for this your's rose parade in pasadena. a giant floral sculpture of a blonde former cancer patient just being a little girl again. >> how did you feel about all of this? >> i'm very lucky that they made that medicine because if they didn't milwaukee that medicine i would be in leaven. >> and that's something her parents thank heaven for every day. >> had been rushed to the icu and i left the hospital that afternoon. i looked in the rear view and i saw edie's car seat empty. and i remember that there are people that leave the hospital

and they don't get to, you know, put their child in that car seat ever again. when we left the hospital, she came with us. she left with us. you know, it's a big, big thing. >> at just six months old -- >> broccoli, kale. >> lapook: ahead. >> cabbage. >> lapook: does diet make a difference.

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raid occasion barely able even to stand up he competed on the food network show "chopped." >> in the middle of it i had a moment of clarity, i would kin this competition. i could beat cancer. >> you are the chopped champion. >> he did win. but his doctor told him, change the way you eat or die so far he's lost 65 pounds. >> the relationship of food and health and wellness, it's massive. i didn't get it. >> now he wants everybody to get it. he sneaks healthy dishes like this stuffed acorn squash on to the menu at his restaurant. >> jammed down your throat. >> i will make this at home. >> what cancer patients eat matters. >> you prepare meals on days when you're feeling well. >> mary eve brown is an oncology dietitian at johns hopkins

universities. >> it's been reported that two out of three people when they shop up at this very first oncology appointment are suffering nutrition tally. >> how did that go? >> terrible. >> because he was so under nourished jack's chemotherapy session had to be cancelled. >> any time we hold treatment that has impact on survival. that's how powerful nutrition is during your cancer treatment. >> so, is there evidence that food can actually cause cancer? >> there's a relationship between high fat meats and certain types of gut cancers. there's even a bigger body of evidence about obesity and cancer. female cancers, pancreas cancer. >> i like to say eat the rainbow. >> variety of colorful vegetables. >> ha is the power of prevention. >> dr. margaret cuomo has

produced a document ear and a book both called "a world without cancer" we took a spin around her local supermarket. >> >> the qualities of the vegetables and fruits are those elements that are going to help us reduce the risk of cancer, diabetes and other diseases. >> so says, cuomo, but there is some debate about the patrol of specific foods in cancer prevention, even organics. still she's a believer and says consider organic. but if you gasp at the price. >> bias much as you can afford. it's important that you eat the vegetable. that's the important thing. so if you cannot get them organic you are going to eat the vegetables regardless. >> here is something you may not have thought about. >> we want to keep the periphery of a supermarket because the healthier foods are going to be located there. >> cuomo says, fill your cart

with fruits and veggies, like to may toes, peppers, oranges. >> broccoli, kale, collards. >> and try green tea. >> is known to have catechins has ha powerful anti-cancer effect. >> what does all that look like on your dinner plate? you. want two third that have plate to be consisting of vegetables, whole grains, and fruits. with one third of it protein. that protein can be a bean, can be black beans, chick peas, lentils, it can be a lien protein like fish or poultry. >> what do you say to people who say, i hate all that stuff. >> learn to like it. it's good for you.

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>> here again is dr. jon lapook. >> lapook: topping the charts with hit cons is wong side of sheryl grow. redding her knowledge about early decks is another. she talks about that and more with rita braver. >> this is where we're used to seeing sheryl crow. ♪ every day is a winding road. >> on stage with a guitar in her hand. ♪ getting a little bit closer. >> but she says she's equally at home here. >> come right this way. bring you into the program room. >> demonstrating how she gets an annual mammogram or breast x-ray. >> we're going to top to bottom view and than a side view. >> a subject that was once only

whispered about. >> going to bring the machine up here. >> women didn't speak about their breast. it was so taboo. i feel like i'm in a rarefied position in that i have a very large fan base of women. and those women they have got teenage girls now, just great to at least stay on top of your own health. >> she makes no bones about being a paid spokesperson for hologic which makes 3d imaging machines for mammograms. >> it can be a difference between a real harsh treatment or something that is early and is ultimately a cure. >> crow has reason to understand the importance of early detection. in 2006, you discovered that you had breast cancer, how did you even learn that you had it. >> a routine mammogram, an inopportunity time, right before the grammys, my personal life

was in turmoil. also thing i wanted to do was go have a mammogram. the did. come back in six months, we see something that's suspect. my gain cool cyst ged, there's no six months, you don't wait. let's go get a second opinion, let's get a kneeled biopsy it was in vasetive. >> you are young, telling you you have breast canister. >> i do. like one of those things where all of a sudden, everything is swirling. we'll do lumpectomy. you'll get on with your life. >> it was a life that sheryl crow had worked hard to build. raised in kennett, missouri she worked assayed school music teacher a after college. but she add a gig singing commercial jingles. >> in and out and tattle what a

ham burr everything's all about. >> in 186 she decided toe try her luck in l.a. it took you awhile. nobody was beating down your door. >> every label said we don't know what to do with a blue eyed kind of country soul singer. he was pretty much turned down by everybody. ♪ i wanna soak up the sun >> in 1993, she finally broke through. ♪ all i wanna do is have some fun ♪ until the sun comes up over the santa monica boulevard ♪ >> she had a string of hits. eventually racking up nine grammy award. ♪ like steve mcqueen, all i need is a fast machine ♪ and i'm going to make it alive ♪ >> then in 2006 at age 44, a double whammy.

not only cancer, but the end of her engagement to cyclist lance armstrong. the whole saga unfolding publicly. >> but when your life falls apart. suddenly there was a convergence of people being interested in my private life. that was such an intrusion. >> she had 33 radiation treatments. >> every morning i had the opportunity to just lay there with my arm above my head and reassess my life. >> when she got a clean bill of health, she decided to take her mom's advice and not wait for marriage to have children. >> just said, adopt. get a surrogate. your life doesn't have to look like the life you were born into. that's what i did. i thought, life's so short. >> she dotes on 6-year-old levi and his big brother,-year-old wyatt. >> and action. >> but she's also found time to

launch a new line of clothing. >> i love when you look off. >> which she will sen pedal on hsn. >> working from her converted barn in nashville, she's developing piece based on her all-american style. >> it's a great way to get clothes out to people who can't afford the $350 jeans, which, you know, i go to my hometown all the time. that is base you cannily middle america. those are the people who are more economically strapped. >> that's what you want to appeal to? >> yes, she's also got a new record coming next month. called, be myself. the first single which she recently p. at l.a.'s famed troubadour is called "half way there." ♪ if you really can't, baby if you care baby, you meet me half

way there ♪ >> the song is about urging to his to each other in today's vitriol i can political climate. >> doesn't matter if you're this person and i'm that person, don't we all want the same thing at the end of the day? >> along with the song she sings she'll continue to talk, urging women to get an annual mammogram. >> i was healthy. i didn't have any family histo history. at a certain age, take it into your own hands to make sure that you are your advocate. i look at the opportunity as more of a gift than a responsibility. it's worth being said. ♪ meet me half way there >> lapook: up next. a video became for joel.

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>> lapook: a game for joel is a different sort of video game. it's one family's heartfelt tribute to a lost son. and a reminder ben tracy sells us you how far the fight against cancer has yet to go. >> was she with someone else? >> it's homework time in the greenhouse hold just outside of denver. and ryan and amy green's kitchen table is definitely full. >> you want to cut this? >> wait. let me finish. >> when you look closely at the pictures on their refridge traitor you realize it's not nearly as full as it should be. >> i know people sometimes will not want to bring him up because they don't want to make us sad. but a lot of ways we'd rather be sad remembering him than have a day pass where we don't think about him. >> their son joel was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in 102010. the tumors left impartially blind and unable to speak.

at first the treatment was working. >> like they told us he had four months to live. we were a year and a half past that day. we were seeing this miracle. we thought like, we got to tell people. >> what does joel love? wa wa in cups. and warm wet tongues and the cool fur of daz. >> ryan is a video game developer so he and his team created a different sort game they called it. that dragon cancer. >> do you want to rock? there we go. >> the impressionistic game chronicles goal joel's battle with the cancer and the emotional ups and downs. >> we should move forward with the radiation. it freaks me out. could be another miracle. >> it's really more about

contemplation than competition. while you can make joel laugh. and comfort him. >> i'm sorry, guys, it's not good. >> it is often painfully hard to play. you are there when the greens learn joel's tumors have returned. >> any recurrence means chemotherapy has failed. >> there are times when you can't stop him from crying like when he is dehydrated and inconsolable after another round of chemotherapy. >> the first thing we ever created for the game was retelling of the night that i spent in the hospital with joel. it was one of the hardest nights of my life. as a father being unable to do the very thing that i prided myself on, right, which is bring comfort to my children. >> it's so late, joel, lay down. i can't hold you. i can't make you feel better.

shhh. >> we both keep using the word "game." it just seems like such an odd term. >> i would say, no, it's not a game. but there are games in it. it's not about fun but there are moments when you have fun. life is a mixture of the sorrowful and the jowlful and the -- you know, weeping and playing and praying and so, i hope that it's a reflex of our life, you know, in the form of a video game. >> joel lived beyond all expectations. yet the miracle story these parents thought they were telling ended in 2015. he was five. >> when he died, the game became our focus. our grief and in missing him, we all rally around fin usualing the game. >> you within from caring for joel to making everybody compare about joel.

>> that dragon cancer became a phenomenon in the gaming community. >> there's a very intense drive as parents to want your children to have some impact on the wor world. and when you have a child that dies, that's one of the things that you mourn maybe the most, is that all of the dreams you had for them, don't happen. in creating the game i think a lot was desire to make sure that joel's life impacted the world. >> in the final scene of the game, joel is surrounded by all of the things he loved. puppies, bubbles and pancakes, he can finally see and speak. >> i love bubbles. look, i can catch one. >> he was this fun, delightful boy. so the idea that whatever heaven looks like and whatever he is experiencing he would be full of

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cancer aggressive. but the doctor, a breast cancer surgeon and oncologist at the university of california san francisco is part of a new medical movement, urging patients to hit the pause, not the panic button, when they get a breast cancer diagnose. >> we're assaulting by this, find it first, get it out, that's how you live. >> but we really need to change that whole framework. people say, i can find cancer when it's one cell. i said, please, don't. because we don't need to know that because thed with eye may take care of it. there's a lot of things that thed with eye takes care of. >> virtually no one questions the value of screening to find cancers. but the debate about when or if to treat those cancers is getting louder. >> when we initially started to screen for breast cancer we were looking for small, invasive cancers. with the idea that if only we could find them early we would

really dramatically reduce the chance of dying of breast cancer. the problem is, the people who have the very low risk conditions don't need the treatment and by over treating them, you are not improving people's chances of survival. >> a group of medical resystemmers concluded that of over 2,000 women screened one will avoid dying of breast cancer, but ten women will be treated unnecessarily. dartmouth professor dr. h. gilbert welsh tracks cancer survival rates as screening has improved. >> ironically the more overdiagnosis that a screening test does, the more popular it becomes. there are more people who feel they are survivors because ever screening. although it happens to be a cancer that was never going to bother them. they will never know that. >> he says for thyroid cancer screening sent the number of new case skyrocketing but the death

rate remains virtually unchange. for prostate cancer screening peaked in the 19 0s but the death rate barely changed. >> we're moving towards the observation. >> an anologist and president of the christus santa rosa hospital in san antonio. >> if i'm the patient sitting across from you the thing that you would have the hard time persuading me is, it's okay to live with cancer in your body. is it okay? >> well, most of us have cancer in our body. so that's the first thing. >> in fact some prostate cancers are so slow growing that a man will likely die of other causes. and aggressive treatments carry their own dangers, a biopsy risks infection. surgery, even worse. >> can lead to sexual dysfunction. so, a man could become impotent

afterwards. medications may not work for the potent see that can affect marital relationships. radiation and surgery can affect urinary function. >> the unin continueded consequence of a strange new frontier more ways to find cancer but increasing concern that some of those cancers are not dangerous. >> a message over which patients and doctors can connect. >> i think the new role for the physicians is to be a coach, to really try and heparin all this complicated data and to help people make a choice that's right for them. >> lapook: we take a breath. next.

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>> the future of cancer care may take your breath away. trials to see if a simple breath test can spot cancer are underway at the university of southern california, where these volunteers tried out the device. >> it's just like a breathylzer for alcohol, only it's a billion times more sensitive. >> pauley: known as breathlink it's the brainchild of dr. michael phillips who head up mensana research in newark,

new jersey. somebody could just walk in the doctor's office have the results? >> certainly. >> it's not quite as sim's it sound. >> what i do for research. all right. >> not exactly fun. >> how much longer? >> it felt like the longest two minutes of my life. that's very strange. although it sound breathtakingly futuristic, dr. phillips says the basic premises is as old as air. >> hippocrates back in ancient greece told his students to smell the patient's breath. >> when someone gets cancer it actually changes their breath? >> the answer to that is definitely yes for breast cancer and lung cancer. >> the test's reliability in screening certain types of cancer is yet to be proof. >> patient number seven. >> dr. phillips is confident

he's on to something big. meanwhile, it seems time to state the obvious. >> if you can eulaminate mammograms every woman would cheer. >> but we may be able to tell a woman you don't really need one. your probability of having breast cancer is very small. >> it's important to note that this breath test has not been approved yet by the f.d.a. but dr. phillips hopes that will happen soon, when it does, we will all breathe a little easier. >> lapook: correspondent susan spencer. it's just not possible to cover all the complexities of cancer in a single morning. zoe urge you to go to our "sunday morning" website far more information on cancer and the ways we're combating it. with that we go to john dickerson in washington for look what's ahead on "face the nation."

good morning, lone. >> dickerson: good to see you. we talk to speaker of the house paul ryan, he's at center stage. we'll talk to two of his critics senator rand paul and senator brand. >> lapook: thank you we'll be watching. next week on "sunday morning." a journey to the happiest nation on earth. sure we could travel, take it easy... but we've never been the type to just sit back... not when we've got so much more to give when you have the right financial advisor, life can be brilliant. ameriprise but so we don't have tormin wad to get clean. charmin ultra soft gets you clean

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access.wgbh.org there's no question we're making progress against cancer. but it still has the upper hand way too often. i lost a patient to it just a few days ago. many of you are undoubtedly touched by it right now. if we're going to get the upper hand we have to do better. you may remember last year president obama and vice president biden and moon shot initiative to which i say, let's go to the moon. i'm dr. jon lapook. please join jane pauley here again next "sunday morning."

captioning sponsored by cbs >> dickerson: today on "face the nation", house speaker paul ryan leads the charge to repeal obamacare. but do they have the votes within his own party? we will go one-on-one with the speak never an interview you will see only on "face the nation". republicans launch the long promised push to dismantle the affordable care act. but were hammered right out of the date by critics from the right, the left and the center. >> you are a governing party getting a consensus among the wide big tent party. >> we are not getting what we want but we are getting much better policy here. >> dickerson: but it is the impact of the policy that gives americans worried and critics ammunition. >> how many people will lose coverage? >> i can't answer that question. >> dickerson: another unanswered question in washington, what evidence did the president have for his bomb shel